BRC JUL 08 - PINPOINT ACCURACY SPOT ON TARGET

By Matthew Grimson | Thursday, July 9, 2009

Eagle Farm, July 8, 2009.
Maiden Handicap - 1600m. Time: 1-33.38.
Track - Dead 5. Rail - out 5m.
1 Pinpoint Accuracy; 2 Tyrconnell; 3 Son Of The General

Pinpoint Accuracy started as short-priced favourite after showing to fair advantage in the Doomben Slipper (when 4.80 lengths behind Carrara) and the Australia Post (when 4.50 lengths behind Shellscrape). The two-year-old dropped back to Maiden company here and duly arrived in the convincing manner in which the betting suggested she would, in spite of still racing green and still doing several things wrong.

WINNER FEEDBACK:
Trainer Kelso Wood: “She’ll be an Oaks filly. Her last start (in the Australia Post) was an enormous run. That’s why she was favourite today. She’s just kept drawing bad (the filly jumped from barriers 18, 12 and 14 in her previous three starts) and kept having to go back to the tail of the field. Kept running on heavy tracks... you name it. On Saturday week there’s a 1600m race on Tatts days, a two-year-old-race - that’s where I’m going to run her next.”

Jockey Joe Bowditch: “She had a fair bit on them. She deserved the win. She’s been running good races in better company. Today, she got a little lost in the last bit because she’s normally used to chasing ... being in front, she got a bit lost.

“She did a fair bit wrong today. She wanted to hang a bit which is not normally like her, but it was a good effort in the finish. I had to pull the whip through just to keep her straight otherwise she was going get right off the track. But like I said, she had a bit on them.”

PRICE FLUCTUATIONS:
Favourite (Pinpoint Accuracy): 1.50 steady.
The winner was the favourite.

STEWARDS REPORT EXTRACT:
Son Of The General (M. Palmer) and Popnik (D. Peisley) came together and brushed rounding the home turn. Pinpoint Accuracy (J. Bowditch) was inclined to hang out for the majority of the event and shifted ground on the home turn.